Fifty years after it first launched an astronaut on a trip around the Earth, NASA finds itself in need of a new generation of spaceships. On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn made the United States’ first orbital spaceflight, zipping around our planet three times in his Friendship 7 capsule before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean

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50 Years After John Glenn’s Flight, US Needs New Space Ride